Mining railway traffic control logs

Real-time traffic control in railway systems

Despite the constantly increasing demand of passengers and goods transport in Europe, the share of railway traffic is decreasing. One major reason appears to be congestion, which in turn results in frequent delays and in a general unreliability of the system. This fact has triggered the study of efficient ways to manage railway traffic, both off-line and real-time, by means of optimization and ...

Railway Traffic Management

With the growing interest in the railway sector, mainly because of energetic reasons, there is also a need to increase the efficiency of the railway lines. One way to optimize this sector is to improve quality in the train control process itself. Nowadays, train dispatching is still mostly done by human operators that use elementary tools and thereby solving conflicts sub-optimally. Motivated b...

Mining Query Logs

Web Search Engines (WSEs) have stored in their query logs information about users since they started to operate. This information often serves many purposes. The primary focus of this tutorial is to introduce to the discipline of query log mining. We will show its foundations, by giving a unified view on the literature on query log analysis, and also present in detail the basic algorithms and t...

Mining Web Activity Logs

Web mining has been a major research topic during the last decade. Traditional sources of information on the Web include the text of web pages, the structure of the pages as organized by the web page creators, as well as the link structure of the Web. Another emerging source of information is the tags for web pages as collected and organized by collaborative tagging systems (e.g. del.icio.us, S...

Railway traffic flow optimisation with differing control systems